The mystery & grand intimacy of Sufjan Stevens
Summary: <p>Episode 234 is the latest in the occasional series of the podcast - Andrea's favourite weird little guy.</p><br><p>Nialler and <a href="https://andrea-cleary.ghost.io/about/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Andrea Cleary</a> take a big overview of the main discography of one of our favourite songwriters.</p><p>Sufjan Stevens is a Detroit Michigan artist, songwriter, composer and multi-instrumentalist who has a deep catalogue of studio albums drawing on orchestral conceptual releases about US States, electronic hymnals, secular-friendly Christian music, Christmas albums, ambitious cosmic electronic long players and devastating folk and singer-songwriter music informed by grief, love and life.</p><br><p>Andrea leads us through his main thoroughfare, stopping at <em>Enjoy Your Rabbit</em> (2001) to <em>Michigan</em> (2003), <em>Seven Swans</em> (2004), <em>Illinois</em> (2005), <em>The Avalanche</em> (2006), <em>The Age of Adz</em> (2010), <em>Carrie & Lowell</em> (2015), <em>The Ascension</em> (2020), <em>Convocations</em> (20201) and stopping at his most recent rejuvenating album <em>Javelin</em>, released in the wake of the rare peek into Sufjan's private life - his coming out after speaking about the passing of his partner, and the autoimmune disease he has been rehabilitating from recently.</p><br><p><em>Special thanks to </em><a href="https://www.instagram.com/georgiahallion/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Georgia Hallion</em></a><em> for editing this podcast episode.</em></p><br><p>* <a href="https://www.patreon.com/Nialler9" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Support Nialler9 on Patreon, get event discounts, playlists, ad-free episodes and join our Discord community</strong></a></p><p><em>Listen to the episode below or subscribe in your favourite podcast app:</em></p><br><p>Listen on <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/nialler9-music-blog-podcast/id220030762?mt=2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Apple</a> | <a href="http://subscribeonandroid.com/www.nialler9.com/feed/podcast/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Android</a> | <a href="https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/628e64b34a4aec0013fb8f98" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ACAST</a> | <a href="https://www.patreon.com/nialler9" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Patreon</a> | <a href="https://pca.st/BWui" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pocketcasts</a> | <a href="https://castbox.fm/channel/id1516041?country=us" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">CastBox</a> | <a href="https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/nialler9?refid=stpr" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stitcher</a> | <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/2qCyvvnd4KCyJtJNtz8ErU?si=bP_-KxlfQ7C5xVtm5evP4A" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Spotify</a> | <a href="https://nialler9.com/feed/podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">RSS Feed</a></p><h3>Show notes</h3><ul><li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/01BYWpca42gRDQfJXwvilh?si=3db6d2fc2373427c" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Songs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify Playlist</a></li></ul><p><em>S</em><strong>Follow Nialler9 on </strong><a href="https://instagram.com/nialler9" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Insta</strong></a><strong> | </strong><a href="https://twitter.com/Nialler9" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Twitter</strong></a><strong> | </strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6JRhzVyMRc8H9MSY51pdSQ" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Youtube</strong></a><strong> | </strong><a href="https://open.spotify.com/user/nialler9?si=vYT6SjjaSoG2ddf4sx2nsQ" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Spotify</strong></a></p><br><hr><p style="color:grey;font-size:0.75em;"> Hosted on Acast. See <a style="color:grey;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
